Last Saturday, I critically commented on a New York Times story that quoted Arab-American playright, Jamil Khoury. Jamil wrote to me and I promised him that I will post a correction if the correction appears in the New York Times. It appeared today:
"An article in The Arts on Saturday about the Arab-American playwright Yussef El Guindi and his new play, "Back of the Throat," erroneously attributed a view about the scarcity of Arab-American playwrights. It was Rabiah Ahmed, a spokeswoman for the Council of American-Islamic relations, not Jamil Khoury, a founder of the Silk Road Theater Project in Chicago, who said that conservatism within Muslim culture might be one reason, and that representations of the human form were frowned on and that dancing or performing by women in front of men was considered reprehensible."